PAPERS.

62. THE CULT OF THE GODDESS GARSI. BY MR.

AMULYA RATNA SANYAL AND MR. S. C. MITRA,

M.A., B.L. (READ ON 4TH JULY 1923)..

63. THE KONKAN AND THE KONKANI LANGUAGE.

(GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL). BY RAO

SAHIB DR. V. P. CHAVAN, L.M. & S. (READ

ON 1ST AUGUST 1923)

64. THE KONKAN AND KONKANI LANGUAGE. (DEVE-

LOPMENT AND GRAMMAR). BY RAO SAHIB DR.

V. P. CHAVAN, L. M. & S. (READ ON 5TH

SEPTEMBER 1923)

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853

875

65. THE KONKAN AND THE KONKANI LANGUAGE.

(GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.) BY RAO SAHIB DR.

V. P. CHAVAN, L. M. & S. (READ ON 3RD

OCTOBER 1923)

66. A NOTE SUPPLEMENTARY TO THE PAPER ENTITLED

"A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE REFORMED SHAIVA

894

67. ON THE WORSHIP OF THE DEITY HANUMANTA IN

ORISSA. BY SARAT CHANDRA MITRA, ESQ., M.A.,

B.L. (READ ON 2ND NOVEMBER 1923)

68. ON A RECENT INSTANCE OF THE USE OF THE NUDITY

SPELL FOR RAIN-MAKING IN NORTHERN BENGAL.

BY SARAT CHANDRA MITRA, ESQ., M.A., B.L.

(READ ON 2ND NOVEMBER 1923) .

70. THE FULL MOON FESTIVAL OF THE TRIPURIS OR

THE THREE FLYING CITIES OF THE ASURAS. A

PROBABLE RELIC OF THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE

DEVAS (INDO-ARYANS) AND ASURAS (IRANIAN-

ARYANS). BY RAO BAHADUR DR. P. B. JOSHI,

PH.D., F.R.G.S.

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PAPERS.

71. THE LEGEND OF THE AMAZONS. BY G. E. L.

CARTER, ESQ., I.C.S...

72. THE NATIVE CRAFT OF WESTERN INDIA AND THE

PERSIAN GULF. BY JOHN MUNSTER, Esq.

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934

955

73. RACIAL (FOREIGN AND INDIGENOUS) ORIGINS OF

INDIAN STATUTORY AND CUSTOMARY LAWS.

BY J. A. SALDANHA ESQ. B.A.,, LL.B.

74. THE SOCIAL LIFE OF A CHRISTIAN OF MEDIEVAL

ENGLAND AND THE SOCIAL LIFE OF A PARSI OF

MODERN INDIA. BY DR. JIVANJI JAMSHEDJI

MODI, B.A., PH.D., C.I.E...

75. THE GERM OF THE EVOLUTION THEORY IN OLD

IRANIAN LITERATURE. BY DR. JIVANJI JAM-

SHEDJI MODI, B.A., PH.D., C.I.E.

958

974

1003

76. THE OWL IN FOLKLORE. BY DR. JIVANJI JAM-

SHEDJI MODI, B.A., PH,D., C.I.E.

1014

77. BRAHMACHARIYA AS UNDERSTOOD BY GOTAMA.

BY PROF. N. K. BHAGVAT, M.A...

INDEX TO VOL. XII Nos. 1 TO 8

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ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY

OF

BOMBAY.

RACES AND PLACES.

BY A. E. L. EMANUEL, ESQ., I.C.S.

(Read on 28th July 1920.)

I have no theory to propound in the following rambling few words, and I have discovered no new laws or important generalizations. I only wish to suggest, for the use of those better qualified than myself by linguistic attainments or other advantage, a line of enquiry into certain human conditions which might lead to interesting and valuable conclusions. I wish to record a few remarks on the "oecology," to use a botanical term, of races in India. Botanists have lately given somewhat special attention not only to the range and classification of various plants, but also to the kind of places where they are usually found, and to the kinds of companions they cultivate; and a similar study of human races will not be uninteresting.

This is a path of enquiry which can probably be more easily pursued in India than anywhere else, because races do not jostle in Europe (even in Austria and Hungary, and the Balkans) to anything like the same extent that they do in India, and there are no castes in Europe within single States. No doubt the Ford 'caste' is used figuratively in England of different sections of the people, to denote different grades parted by social standing or by wealth, and it is possible to say, in this limited sense, that such and such a class lives in such and such streets in